The Tain (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140455302 ISBN 13: 9780140455304

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2008

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The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cualige. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick.

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"Carson's landmark translation, the first in forty years, brings this literary gem to life in a fresh, modern retelling that rivals Thomas Kinsella's classic translation of 1969." - Booklist "In vivid prose Carson has harnessed . . . the tale's tremendous artistic power."-Irish Voice

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'Ireland's own Iliad ... [this is] a lively, engaging and wonderfully vernacular telling of a great tale' John Burnside, The Times

For jealousy of her husband's prize bull, Medb, Queen of Connacht, takes her people to war to steal its match from Ulster - the legendary Brown Bull of Cúailnge. With the Ulstermen stricken by a curse, only the youthful Cú Chulainn stands against Connacht's assembled armies, but in feats of supernatural strength and extravagant violence, he sets about bloodily disassembling them.

Full of black comedy and brutal action, The Táin is the great epic of Irish folk literature, and Ciaron Carson's translation perfectly captures its excitement, humour and earthiness.

'A jubilant new translation of the Old Irish epic' Seamus Heaney, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

'Carson's Táin, as natural in style as it is unflinching, is a translation of power, grace and resonance' Peter McDonald, Guardian

'Ciaran Carson's riproaring, ruminative translation of Táin Bó Cúailnge' Paul Muldoon, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

'Carson's zest for the English language renders him the ideal translator for a text that delights in exuberant description ... highly entertaining and immensely readable' Éllís Ní Dhuibhne, Irish Times

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0140455302
• ISBN 13: 9780140455304
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256